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Dave Eggers is the author of five books, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, You Shall Know Our Velocity!, How We Are Hungry, What Is the What, and Zeitoun. He is the editor of McSweeney’s, a quarterly magazine and book-publishing company, and is cofounder of 826 Valencia, a network of nonprofit writing and tutoring centers for young people. His interest in oral history led to his 2004 cofounding of Voice of Witness, a nonprofit series of books that use oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world. As a journalist, his work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire... Read More
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Selected Stories from the O. Henry Prize Stories 2002
Read by Various
Selected by Dave Eggers, Joyce Carol Oates and Colson Whitehead
Edited by Larry Dark
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: August 27, 2002
Price: $14.96
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Read by Various
Selected by Dave Eggers, Joyce Carol Oates and Colson Whitehead
Edited by Larry Dark
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: August 27, 2002
Price: $14.96
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Away We Go
A Screenplay
Written by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $14.00
The first original screenplay by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, AWAY WE GO is the new movie direcetd by Academy Award® winner Sam Mendes.
Longtime couple Verona (Maya Rudolph) and Burt (John Krasinski) are expecting a baby, and the impending child's only living grandparents are moving to—where else—Belgium. So Burt and Verona... Read more >
A Screenplay
Written by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $14.00
The first original screenplay by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, AWAY WE GO is the new movie direcetd by Academy Award® winner Sam Mendes.
Longtime couple Verona (Maya Rudolph) and Burt (John Krasinski) are expecting a baby, and the impending child's only living grandparents are moving to—where else—Belgium. So Burt and Verona... Read more >
Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans
The Best of McSweeney's Humor Category
Edited by Dave Eggers
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 14, 2005
Price: $12.95
Now more than ever, Americans are troubled by questions. As sweaty modernity thrusts itself upon us, the veil of ignorance that cloaked our nation hangs in tatters, tattered tatters. Our "funny bones" are neither fun nor bony. Glum is the new giddy, and the old giddy wasn't too giddy to begin... Read more >
The Best of McSweeney's Humor Category
Edited by Dave Eggers
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 14, 2005
Price: $12.95
Now more than ever, Americans are troubled by questions. As sweaty modernity thrusts itself upon us, the veil of ignorance that cloaked our nation hangs in tatters, tattered tatters. Our "funny bones" are neither fun nor bony. Glum is the new giddy, and the old giddy wasn't too giddy to begin... Read more >
Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans
The Best of McSweeney's, Humor Category
Edited by Dave Eggers, Kevin Shay, Lee Epstein, John Warner and Suzanne Kleid
Format: eBook, 256 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: August 10, 2004
Price: $12.95
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The Best of McSweeney's, Humor Category
Edited by Dave Eggers, Kevin Shay, Lee Epstein, John Warner and Suzanne Kleid
Format: eBook, 256 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: August 10, 2004
Price: $12.95
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Written by Dave Eggers
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 13, 2001
Price: $15.00
"A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is, finally, a fine book of jest, which is why it succeeds so brilliantly. Eggers' most powerful prose is often his most straightforward, relying on old-fashioned truth telling for its punch." —The New York Times Book Review
The literary sensation of the year, a book that... Read more >
Written by Dave Eggers
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 13, 2001
Price: $15.00
"A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is, finally, a fine book of jest, which is why it succeeds so brilliantly. Eggers' most powerful prose is often his most straightforward, relying on old-fashioned truth telling for its punch." —The New York Times Book Review
The literary sensation of the year, a book that... Read more >
How We Are Hungry
Written by Dave Eggers
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 11, 2005
Price: $13.95
How We Are Hungry is a gripping, lyrical, and intensely soulful group of stories written over the past four years. Though they range from a doomed Irish setter's tales of running and jumping ("After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned") to a bitterly comic meditation on suicide... Read more >
Written by Dave Eggers
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 11, 2005
Price: $13.95
How We Are Hungry is a gripping, lyrical, and intensely soulful group of stories written over the past four years. Though they range from a doomed Irish setter's tales of running and jumping ("After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned") to a bitterly comic meditation on suicide... Read more >
How We Are Hungry
Written by Dave Eggers
Format: eBook, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.95
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Written by Dave Eggers
Format: eBook, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.95
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What Is the What
Written by Dave Eggers
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $15.95
What Is the What is the epic novel based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng who, along with thousands of other children—the so-called Lost Boys—was forced to leave his village in Sudan at the age of seven and trek hundreds of miles by foot, pursued by militias, government bombers, and... Read more >
Written by Dave Eggers
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $15.95
What Is the What is the epic novel based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng who, along with thousands of other children—the so-called Lost Boys—was forced to leave his village in Sudan at the age of seven and trek hundreds of miles by foot, pursued by militias, government bombers, and... Read more >
What Is the What
Written by Dave Eggers
Format: eBook, 480 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 13, 2007
Price: $15.95
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Written by Dave Eggers
Format: eBook, 480 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 13, 2007
Price: $15.95
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You Shall Know Our Velocity
Written by Dave Eggers
Format: eBook
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 4, 2009
Price: $15.00
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Written by Dave Eggers
Format: eBook
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 4, 2009
Price: $15.00
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You Shall Know Our Velocity
Written by Dave Eggers
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 1, 2003
Price: $15.00
In his first novel, Dave Eggers has written a moving and hilarious tale of two friends who fly around the world trying to give away a lot of money and free themselves from a profound loss. It reminds us once again what an important, necessary talent Dave Eggers is.
“Headlong, heartsick... Read more >
Written by Dave Eggers
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 1, 2003
Price: $15.00
In his first novel, Dave Eggers has written a moving and hilarious tale of two friends who fly around the world trying to give away a lot of money and free themselves from a profound loss. It reminds us once again what an important, necessary talent Dave Eggers is.
“Headlong, heartsick... Read more >
Zeitoun
Written by Dave Eggers
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 15, 2010
Price: $15.95
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Written by Dave Eggers
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 15, 2010
Price: $15.95
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Zeitoun
Written by Dave Eggers
Format: eBook
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 15, 2010
Price: $15.95
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Written by Dave Eggers
Format: eBook
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 15, 2010
Price: $15.95
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A Tramp Abroad
Written by Mark Twain
Introduction by Dave Eggers
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: October 14, 2003
Price: $14.95
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Written by Mark Twain
Introduction by Dave Eggers
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: October 14, 2003
Price: $14.95
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A Tramp Abroad
Written by Mark Twain
Introduction by Dave Eggers
Format: eBook, 400 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
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Written by Mark Twain
Introduction by Dave Eggers
Format: eBook, 400 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
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